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Harrison's memoir is light in style and content. The author skims over events in her life from her childhood to the end of her formal professional life with her retirement from Cambridge University . However...

Donald Crofton, one of the comparatively few male protagonists in RC 's oeuvre, returns home at the beginning of the novel, from university life at Cambridge to a long summer with his close-knit family. His...

QDL 's review constitutes a personal and professional attack on Woolf, based primarily on three fronts: education, domesticity, and class. A footnote asserts that Woolf commenting on women's institutional education is voicing an opinion on...

Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it. She used the conventional one for I...

They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. Apparently they were thinking...

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

Though she calls her work a memoir, ES spends only twenty-six pages writing about Eleanor Sidgwick's childhood, and gives much of the text to the history of Newnham, before as well as during her aunt's...

Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing, 2002, presents essays on the motives that make people into writers, on the trajectories of their lives, on her own experience, responses to her work, rewards...

Her eponymous Leonard Leuniger is a male Jewish undergraduate at Cambridge , a budding writer. He makes upper-class friends at university whose antisemitism only gradually reveals itself, cruelly frustrating his efforts to win their approval...

This is HO 's haunted house novel; she reports having been inspired by Shirley Jackson 's The Haunting of Hill House. The novel, which opens with an epigraph from African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks

The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet...

This novel is set in the political climate which followed the recent Reform Bill, and in the fashionable area of the Faubourg St Germain in Paris, which its author knew at first hand, as well...

Stephen Lock suggests in his introduction to the 1989 reprint that this novel is à clef: that JF 's Phillips (whose name, before the publisher suggested a change, was Dr Abrams) was modelled on Ernest Abraham Hart

At last he says he will teach her no more: he feels he is leading her into the temptation of worldliness. Mr Howells, it turns out, once studied at Cambridge (as the first scholarship boy...

Her speeches in general are models of grand and persuasive rhetoric; they are designed to inspire patriotism and loyalty, while refusing to be pinned down on policy detail. Elizabeth's frequent references to her gender combine...